The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.

INSTITUTIONAL FIXING OF AUTHORITY OF BOHEMIAN KINGS IN SILESIA. THE PROBLEM OF ESTABLISHING OF THE OVER-FOREMAN OFFICE (Czech title below)

Source

Abstract

(Czech title: Institucionani ukotvení moci ceskych kralu ve slezskem prostoru. K problematice prosazeni uradu vrchniho slezskeho hejtmana ve druhe polovine 15. století). The author discusses the administrative reform made by Matthias Corvinus in the middle of 1470s, especially establishing the highest land foreman office. She noticed that the office was generally not accepted at the beginning. It was not possible to join together the executive abilities over Lusatia and Silesia in one hand of such an officer. The attempt was not successful until 1490 when a new foreman for Silesia appeared. Special royal plenipotentiaries administered before. In 1480s Georg von Stein and Johann von Kornitz, significant persons at the Matthias Corvinus' court, were such officers. Another problem discussed by the author is struggle of the Silesian and Bohemian states to defend their rights and privileges. A Great Privilege from 1498 conceded by the King Vladislas II was their important success, because from that time only a Silesian duke could be appointed to the foreman of Silesia office. A research postulate is to make a further study about the activity of both royal plenipotentiaries and political thought of Silesian states around the role of Crown lands, i.e. their legitimacy of the conviction about subordination of other lands and own right to keep the integrity of the Bohemian Crown. In practice Bohemian states expressed their attitude to those issues by contribution in election of Bohemian Kings, what was exclusive privilege in comparison with other Crown lands.

Accessibility options

You can change the active elements on the page (buttons and links) by pressing a combination of keys:

TAB go to the next element

SHIFT + TAB go to the previous element

Financed by the National Centre for Research and Development under grant No. SP/I/1/77065/10 by the strategic scientific research and experimental development program:
SYNAT - “Interdisciplinary System for Interactive Scientific and Scientific-Technical Information”.